A lettings agent described as ‘rogue’ by a London council, along with two lettings companies, have been heavily fined for operating a dangerous unlicensed HMO.  The agent,...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has issued a reminder to the industry of the need to understand and abide by new rules for Houses in...

Rent-to-rent operator Residently says area with high volumes of tech company employees are leading the lettings market’s growth in London. The firm provides landlords with long-term guaranteed...

The National Approved Letting Scheme is celebrating the 500th candidate to complete its Foundation Lettings Course. Moira Devlin of Lowther Homes, in Scotland, was the 500th graduate,...

A property management firm chief who had to pay over £20,000 after being found guilty of nine offences relating to an HMO has had all findings...

A new study shows that 43 per cent of tenants want the system of private rental deposits to be dropped and replaced with insurance-based alternatives.  The study...

Free seminars are to be held next month to help letting agents restructure their business to optimise opportunities in the current challenging market. Simon Duce, managing director...

One in nine landlords now check prospective tenants’ social media accounts to try to assess how they may behave as renters, according to a mortgage lender. Research...

There’s a growing call for more police action over tracing a lettings agent who is apparently missing - as is some thousands of pounds owed to...

A gloomy report from The Deposit Protection Service says the UK’s rental market is in recession for the first time since the banking crisis started a...

HomeLet says the average rent in the UK is now £947, up 0.9 per cent on last year - or up 1.3 per cent if London...

Another short let management firm, set up in the wake of an explosion of Airbnb-style renting by amateurs and professionals, is expanding from London into Bristol...

The lettings director at Urban, the online agency recently snapped up by Emoov, says the rental market is faced with significant problems “as it buckles under...

A lettings agent who let a tiny room behind a kitchen in a property in London has been ordered to pay more than £32,000 in court. Viviane...

New figures out show that buy to let mortgage rates are showing the effects of last month’s base rate rise. Online mortgage broker Property Master says average...

Barbon Insurance Group, which trades as HomeLet and Rentshield Direct, has now snapped up Movem. Movem uses personal online banking transaction data to validate tenants’ financial means...

Trading Standards departments in London are asking renters to name and shame letting agents who are not complying with the law - and the campaign in...

An investment trust has been launched and looks likely to be competing for individual investors who may see it as an alternative to the increasingly complex...

The landlord of an HMO who subjected his tenants to insanitary and unsafe living conditions has been told he will no longer be able to rent...

Managing agency Rendall & Rittner has scooped a Platinum Investors in People award, demonstrating commitment to high performance through good people management. The company, which currently employs...

A landmark report on private renting provides the opportunity to stop blaming letting agents and landlords for the sector’s problems, a leading expert says. Kate Faulkner -...

Franchise giant Belvoir Lettings has told the City and the firm’s shareholders that revenues and profits have risen in the first half of this year.  Sales for...

Some industry observers say letting agents and Build To Rent are daggers drawn, but one agency in the Midlands is having nothing of that - and...

It’s been announced that the next stage of the Tenants’ Fees Bill through Parliament will be its Second Reading in the House of Lords, scheduled for...

Shadow housing minister John Healey has given his backing to a Labour MP’s attempt to introduce a mandatory national register for buy to let landlords. Sedgefield MP...

The National Landlords Association is the latest trade body to back what is being described as a landmark review of the private rented sector in England...

The lettings book of My London Home will be absorbed into the Stirling Ackroyd portfolio and rebranded this autumn. Consisting of nearly 1,000 managed properties, the portfolio...

More independent lettings agencies - Anthony Pepe, Let Leeds and Alexander & Co (formerly kaleidoscope Group) - have signed up to the ZPG-backed Zero Deposit scheme. The...

A letting agent operating in Cambridgeshire has seemingly 'gone to ground', owing landlords and tenants thousands of pounds. Frank Smart, who has been running Smart Residential in...

It is now just three weeks until licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) is extended. The new rules, which will require all properties housing five or...

The policy director of the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is calling on local councils to use the 'extensive powers' they have to root out rogue landlords...

A family-run hybrid based in the North East has secured the £300,000 contract to manage a new student accommodation development in Newcastle. BeeMyHome will manage the 43-bed...

Fast-growing regional Yorkshire agency Linley & Simpson has announced the details of two new acquisitions. It has picked up the lettings books of Leeds-based Hitchen & Co...

The average rent in the UK increased by 0.13% last month - the highest level of monthly growth recorded since April 2016. This is according to the...

A landlord in Reading has been handed a huge fine for serious breaches of fire safety regulations.  Philip Brotherton's company Cresctcourt Properties was fined £177,000 after he...

Members of the Guild of Property Professionals will be given access to a series of training videos put together by former ARLA Propertymark president Sally Lawson. The...

The UK's second city Birmingham takes top spot when it comes to student property returns for buy-to-let investors. Analysis by online letting agency Urban.co.uk calculates an average...

MPs have proposed a series of amendments to the Tenant Fees Bill as part of its Report Stage and Third Reading in the House of Commons. Yesterday...

Reports have emerged this week that the government is planning a U-turn on its proposals to introduce mandatory three-year minimum tenancies in the private rented sector. This...

Cleaning and property damage are the most common reasons landlords make deposit deductions, according to data released by The Deposit Protection Service (DPS). Over the last year,...

A survey has revealed that 44% of landlords are looking to sell properties as a challenging market takes its toll. Octopus Choice, a P2P lending product, surveyed...

Leading portals Zoopla and OnTheMarket have today announced that they will both be advertising agents' rental property listings on Facebook Marketplace. Marketplace allows consumers to search for...

A London council has fined a letting agency over £10,000 for failing to install smoke alarms in a rental property. Waltham Forest council has prosecuted Just Move...

A leading letting agent argues that the UK housing market is not prepared to deal with a growing number of lifetime renters. DJ Alexander, an independent agency...

Rent recognition platform CreditLadder, which enables renters to add their payments to their credit history, has announced a partnership which aims to benefit around 10,000 tenants. The...

Lettings sector energy firm Spark has announced that it is launching a business-to-business energy service which will initially target high street estate and letting agents. Spark Business...

The police have launched a fraud probe against a Norfolk estate agency which closed in June.  The Eastern Daily Press (EDP) reports that the Swaffham agency, eHomes...

The House of Commons has published a briefing paper on tenancy deposit schemes ahead of the Report Stage of the Tenant Fees Bill on Wednesday. The paper,...

The chief commercial officer of PropTech startup Canopy says that letting agents and Build to Rent landlords need to accommodate the 'scores of conscientious urban renters'...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has this week launched a new Training Academy which aims to help landlords, agents and property professionals seeking additional support.  The academy...